Wealthy men in old Russia (as old as the beginning of the last century) liked to go to a bathhouse in a nice men’s company (nothing gay or straight about this). But those bathhouses were pretty much different from those Russia has today.
One of those luxury bathhouses, one of brothers Yegorovs, in the beginning of the twentieth century is here on the photos today
Baths
Lobby, before 1914
Separate changing rooms
Changing rooms inside
There were special bathhouse attendants who were washing visitors.
Showers
Pool in the bathhouse
Yeah, no baths for women in this post, they washed at home probably or in less luxury banyas.
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OMG!
There’s a dead guy floating in pic one!!
He died happy…
Back then, soaping and washing your naked compadre was a normal “man thing”.
Back then, even soaping and washing your naked compadre’s genitals was a normal “man thing”.
Those were the days.
It was called “helping a brother out.”
Eww! wash your own junk!
it looks pretty gay to me
It doesn’t get any more gay than that!
I am pretty sure it was freezing so there was no “loch ness monster” or engorged pillars of doom as some of the posters above think.
Jesus the one guy is soaping up the other guys junk while staring deeply into his eyes. That’s not a bath it’s a happy ending.
This is my grandma’s PORN!!
Yeah, I agree that it looks quite gay.
The photos get progressively gayer as one scrolls down the page.
Also, consider the fact that they had to hold their pose because of the limits of photography technology back then.
“OK, now lather up your buddies package, hold still and say cheese”
No thanks!
This alone was good enough reason for the revolution.